Wharton is number 1 in the Financial Times MBA 2022 ranking

Financial Times 2022 Business School Rankings are out and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania tops the list (for the 11^th time!). Surprisingly, Columbia Business School has seen a massive jump in the rankings with its MBA program and has taken the second rank. INSEAD and Harvard Business School are sharing the 3^rd position followed by Kellogg School of Management at 5th. Stanford Graduate School of Business landed on 6^th position, the University of Chicago Booth at 7^th, and London Business School at 8^th position. Yale School of Management finishes in ninth place, while the top MBA programs from the business schools at NYU Stern and the University of California Berkeley also feature in the top. Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business dropped eight and nine places, but remain in the top 20.

M7 schools (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, MIT, Columbia) are back on the list and have taken 6 of the top 10 spots. MIT Sloan is the only M7 school to place outside the top 10, in 11th place. However, the return of the top US schools to this ranking, after deciding not to participate in 2021 due to the pandemic, has created a punishing cascade of declines for many schools. Apart from INSEAD, only London Business School and IESE could secure positions in top non-US schools.

Let’s have a look at how the Financial Times MBA 2022 ranking of B schools is conducted. The following table will give you a fair idea of the same.

When it comes to MBA ranking- the weighted salary of alumni and the average salary increase have the highest weightage (20% each). Wharton improved its position in exactly half of the 20 different data points used by the Financial Times to rank MBA programs, losing ground in only four categories. The 10 improved metrics accounted for nearly two-thirds (65%) of the entire ranking.

Prospective students should take these rankings as a pinch of salt. Some schools see huge jumps and some have a major decline in ranking each year. Almost all of these changes in school ranks have nothing to do with the quality of these MBA programs. Instead, they are a reflection of school participation rates, sample size, and external factors like a strong U.S. economy that has sent salaries at most American MBA programs to record levels.

Here, is the list of the top 30 ranked business schools MBA programs according to the Financial Times MBA 2022 ranking. You can find the full rankings here: https://rankings.ft.com/rankings/2866/mba-2022

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